Initially in my late teens, I began to create art which would be fun to gaze into under the influence of acid or mushrooms. Based on my psychedelic forays in nature, I created art utilizing the forms which best facilitated the hallucinitory experience i.e., clouds, foliage, symmetry, etc. This can best be seen in one of my earlier works called Kundalini. Through these practices, I continued to hone in on opening the creative channel which unleashed more and more pathways of creation. Never have I had a vision and then proceeded to create it. Entheogens simply gave me keys in which I could later reopen the doorways to enter with my art. My favorite part of art I would say is taking the journey upon completion to see it 'in its full glory'.
The most amazing psychedelic experiences I’ve had have been from journeying into my art with the aid of DMT. Practically indescribable, my experiences have taken me to places way deeper than I could have ever imagined, beyond the form and content of the art itself and into the primal intention and the realm of spirit.
Upon completion of my piece Diosa Madre Tierra (note the acronym), which was inspired by my first visit to the tryptamine realm, I decided to see what would happen if I completed the circle by smoking a hit of DMT.
Intitially fully animated, my world dissolved into the painting as I fully entered it with my entire being. The fusion of my self with my creation was of oneness and it was a totally new and amazing feeling to be inseperable from a tangible object which came through me.
At one point, the imagery DeMaTerialized and a tunnel formed which I was shot through. The face of my beloved partner who had passed away less than a year before appeared as I flew by only to enter into a portal revealing the realm of the spirit. It was if I had physically died and was being given a glimpse of the other side, only to witness the sheer beauty and boundless bliss of that world. I could literally feel and see the remaining vestiges of fear of death fly off of me and the liberation was amazingly profound. I had no idea this was even possible and I felt I had entered into an entirely new form of healing.

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I have also journeyed this way with my piece Singularity with equally amazing results. It is as if we can enter into the intention of the painting and have its higher dimensional form reveal itself.
I have since led groups on facilitated journeys in this way with my art and have had nothing but miraculous results. A few who have done this and experienced the significance have taken it upon themselves to facilitate their own group journeys.
I am so thankful for the medicine and what it has done for me and others. It has drastically changed the way I look at my art and I’m sure the medicine will continue to shape its development.
I decided to create the Di Methyl Temple as a functioning portal for people to gain entrance into the multidimension.

DI METHYL TEMPLE
Carey Thompson

THE DI METHYL TEMPLE

Designed by Rob Newell and myself, with creative offerings from Victor Olenev and Xavi, the Di Methyl Temple was created for the metevent Burning Man in the desert of Nevada. Over the years, Burning Man has accumulated unfathomable amounts of creative energy with countless artistic projects establishing itself as perhaps the world’s largest interactive museum, attracting thousands and thousands of participants each year.
We decided to reflect the collective consciousness by creating an art gallery to demonstrate the holographic nature of the mind through the paintings of several current visionaries. We constructed the entryway façade with the inspiration of several ancient cultural temple design motifs including Mayan, Egyptian and Balinese.
These cultures built their temple structures with high intention and for specific functions within their society. One common thread found in the temples of all these cultures is the

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DI METHYL TEMPLE (interior)
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connection with the heavens, usually as alignments with certain solar cycles or astral positions. People would gather together to celebrate during these times in ritual, as they would forge the link between their inner selves and the outer universe.
In this tradition, the Di Methyl Temple was built in alignment with the rising and setting of the sun, allowing for the final rays of the setting sun to beam into the crystal heart of the temple, offering an opportune time to gather within.
Our main intention of creating the space was to offer the experience of transformation. As one entered into the space, the fearsome monster creating the façade would strip the entrant of their identity, dissolving egoic structures, but also serving as a guardian during the experience within.
In this field of psychic insulation, the participant would be free to journey deep into the paintings and into their own mindspace to be reborn anew, completing the transformation. Much like the moon guides the newborn seaturtle to its destiny in the sea, the paintings within the temple were there to serve as roadmaps for the newborn psyche to move towards the alignment of highest potential.

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SINGULARITY

Interspersed throughout the universe are billions of galaxies, each containing within them a point of concrescence drawing in energy and matter towards its center. So much energy is drawn in, that the gravitational field approaches infinity where nothing, including light, can escape. When this occurs, a singularity is formed where all of our known science breaks down and is unable in any way to accurately describe it.
In a similar fashion, humankind is in a trajectory towards some event horizon in our near future where our understanding of reality cannot see beyond. This path includes many coinciding events, including a technological singularity where accelerating advances in nanotechnology, computer technology, and molecular biotechnology continue to feedback, propelling humankind exponentially into an era inconceivable to the human mind.
This temporal attractor is creating an acceleration of the sciences as well as in other areas more spiritual. A global culture is emerging based on harmonious existence, awareness of time cycles, and interconnectivity to the entire web of creation.
Despite the resistance by the controlling regimes, this culture continues to grow like a mycelial network, rooting its strength with tools such as permaculture, expressive arts, and cybernetic communications. As we approach the steepening curve of novelty, we can peer back towards our past and see that this is not the first and only time. Remnants of our ancient past reveal evidence of a global civilization united in mind and spirit. Spanning the continents we can see similarities in the architecture, art, costume, language, and cosmology of several civilizations, perhaps rooted by even earlier civilizations.
Technologies such as those used to construct the pyramids, those used to create the crystal skulls, or those used to track the precession of the equinoxes had been lost for millennia. Through careful analysis of the archeological record, we can start to understand the ebb and flow of consciousness and

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technology and begin to prepare ourselves for the upcoming changes.
This painting was designed to catalyze an awareness of these past and future events in order to attune the viewer with the present and ease the transition into the singularity.

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HARMONIC CONCORDANCE

HARMONIC CONCORDANCE
Carey Thompson

Harmonic Concordance is the name given to the planetary alignment that took place on October 9 2003, in which six planets including the planetoid Chiron formulated a six-pointed star around the earth. Computer models determined an alignment like this has not occurred within the last 3000 years and will not for the next 3000 years. In astrological terms, this is called a grand sextile. All planets involved are in resonant harmony and create a unique balance of the energies and vibrations reaching our experience here on planet earth.
In conjunction with this positioning of the planets was a lunar eclipse where the light rays of the sun bend around the earth’s atmosphere placing a colorful penumbra on the lunar canvas.
I felt personally an opening of sorts with the creation of this piece.

Beginning during the summer months while studying with renowned artist Robert Venosa in Cadeques, Spain and with no idea or intention in mind, the image seemed to construct itself.
We were studying the Misch technique of pulling imagery out of a completely random underpainting and applying layers and layers of glazes allowing the art to grow organically. With no preconceived ideas in

Carey Thompson and Robert Venosa
Dali's Garden, Cadeques, Spain

mind, I was able to completely open up to the unfolding present moment and capture the energetic interference pattern pervading the globe.

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The same energetic pulses guiding my hand also guided my body as I began traveling Europe and then back to the states painting along the way. In Europe, I was carried to the mystic temples of Gaudi in Barcelona and met global family at the European national rainbow gathering, to have my intuitions validated that what is happening in my reality at home is occurring on a global scale.
No matter where I went or whom I talked to, everyone seemed to be gravitating towards the same pathways of understanding and feeling a definite shift in reality.
Interestingly enough, the synchronicities that I first became completely aware of during my first trip to Europe had been increasing more and more, and the set wave that I caught then had brought me back to the same exact place exactly seven years to the month later.
My fluid travels then brought me to the west coast to experience Burning Man, which was undoubtedly a city-scale experiment and preparation for our future in reality co-creation. Artistic creativity and energetic interdependence fuel the community, and multidimensional realities are directly experienced, opening up novel potentialities for all of the initiates involved.
Further travels from the west coast to the east coast all revealed from my interactions with souls that something great is surely happening, on many scales. As the polarities flux yet maintain balance, we seem to be gathering strength and resources of light as the darker forces continue to harness military power to acquire global control.
As they scramble for whatever fear they can muster out of humanity, they inadvertently feed us the growing force of love initiating our coming together and synergizing a collective movement which will be their ultimate demise. They know that terrorists and weapons of mass destruction aren’t the real threat to their regime, it is the workers of light that are here to open the minds and hearts of humanity that truly threaten their control. What they also know is that by wielding the media they can permeate fear across the globe extremely efficiently and attempt to hold humanity in a much lower level of experience and manipulate it for its own purpose. This is now more blatantly apparent than ever and anyone who doesn’t realize it is a sorry victim.
So just as I was traveling and coalescing experiences in my self, the planets were slowly traveling and coalescing into this super sextile. And as this was happening, I felt an amazing creative burst and new forms and colors seemed to squeeze through me forcing their way onto the canvas.
Initially designed to break up the organic flow of the colors and forms, I masked out a simple hexagonal star for contrast in design. This was the only aspect of the piece I was insistent on. I learned of the concordance weeks before, but it wasn’t until the day of it, as I began the actual painting of the star, that I realized what was really happening.
The synchronicity of beginning the star, the final piece painted, on the day of the concordance was just too apparent to be mere happenstance. This, on a painting I began in July with no knowledge whatsoever of the planets making that shape months later.
I had reached a new level of connectedness I felt with the creative forces of the universe. The timing was perfect and of course it was to be called Harmonic Concordance. This title to mark the significance of not only the alignment of the planets, but also the alignment of the universe with my own creative flow.
At times somewhat overwhelming, I am always amazed at the unfolding understanding of the universe I’ve experienced through my artistic endeavors.

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GUARDIAN OF THE SKY PORTAL
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CAREY THOMPSON

Carey Thompson grew up on the east coast in Virginia and North Carolina. He then traveled throughout the western United States ending up in New Mexico where he spent a year creating a core resonance with the American southwest.
Afterwards, Carey embarked on a four-year adventure throughout Central America harnessing the winds of synchrocicity. Exploring countless natural power spots and Mesoamerican sacred sites, he developed a keen interest in ancient cultures and their expression through the arts and cosmology.
Desiring a more rooted foundation, Carey landed in the beautiful lands of Costa Rica where he spent a few years tapping deep into the currents of Gaian creation. Copious amounts of surfing and jungle trekking activated his being to near saturation point as he continued to channel this energy into creativity.

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He currently resides in San Francisco, California where he now focuses on his artistic endeavors.
Carey describes his work as holomorphic transmission vision crystals. The imagery channels through, sourced from the universal matrix, and crystallizes into form onto templates based on sacred geometry and other patterns of nature.
Beginning usually with only a seed of intention, the color and form evolve unconsciously to create the finished art. Revealing the interconnectedness of all things is the primary intention of Carey's artwork.